The developer platform for modern APIs — deploy, route, authenticate, and analyze.
In the founder's own words — what this project is, and why it matters.
Unkey is the developer platform for modern APIs that unifies your infrastructure so you can ship faster. Deploy APIs to production in seconds with zero infrastructure to manage. Route traffic through globally distributed gateways. Issue, verify, and revoke API keys with sub-millisecond global verification. Globally consistent durable rate limiting for any identifier. Per-key permissions, roles, and fine-grained access control. Usage, latency, and per-key analytics across every request with immutable audit logs.
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Deploy APIs, route traffic, verify API keys — all in one platform.
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6.2k+ GitHub stars. Live at unkey.com. Backed by Y Combinator. Growing adoption among API-first startups needing key management without building it themselves.
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